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Apple’s Cook Decries User Surveillance, Calls For U.S. Privacy Law

Apple CEO Tim Cook said the collection of user information has led to a "data industrial complex" and called for a national privacy law.

Apple, Privacy

How WordPress is Eliminating Old Versions From the Internet

The WordPress security team has a tough job: regularly fixing security issues found in the most popular CMS while providing users with the tools to make sure they aren't running older vulnerable code.

Application Security, Wordpress, Patching

How Drop Networks Keep Cybercrime Groups in the Money

Reshippers and drop networks have become a key part of the global cybercrime economy.

Fraud

ICS Networks Plagued By Plaintext Passwords

A new report from CyberX study shows that industrial control systems and industrial internet of things continue to struggle with devices being connected to the internet and legacy protocols exposing passwords.

Iot Security, Manufacturing Security

Applications Using Apache .htaccess at Risk for Attacks

The original vulnerability may be in a jQuery plugin, but the disconnect in how web developers use .htaccess with the Apache web server and how the server is actually configured means there are potentially more applications out there that are vulnerable to attack.

Vulnerability, Appsec, Apache